[airstrike]

Honest question, what's so bad about `this`?

[lhorie]

Dynamic scope[1] is generally considered to be harder to reason about since their values are not determined by where they appear in a file (but rather by how the code executes at runtime)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Lexic...

[jeffkeen]

OP doesn't like coding in javascript to feel like coding in javascript, I guess.